Maker/Artist
Benson, Richard
American photographer, printer, and author, 1943-2017
A photographer and printmaker who embraced the use of offset printing as a fine-art technique for photographic prints. He authored a book, The Printed Picture, about photographic printing processes, and taught at Yale for over 30 years. He acted as dean of the art school there from 1996 to 2006. He was a MacArthur fellow in 1986 and received two Guggenheim fellowships.